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Honest question - did farm subsidies precede the FR?



Subsidies in general are enabled by deficit money printing which would presently be unaffordable without interest rate suppression.

Farm subsidies take various forms such as tax preferences, import tariffs, and a USDA organization specifically tasked with manipulating crop prices. https://www.usda.gov/ccc




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